Check-controlled device.



S. F. MIOTON. CHECK CONTROLLED DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22. I915.

Patented Mar. 7,1916.

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APPLICATIION FILED my 22. 1915. Patented Mal 7,1916.

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apparatus for SIDNEY FITZHUGH MIOTON, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

CHECK-CONTROLLED DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

Original application filed January 8, 1914, Serial No. 811,069. Divided and this application filed May 22, 1915. Serial No. 29,782.

To all whom it may conoem:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY F. M1o'roN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans have invented a new and Improved Check-Controlled Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to coin or check controlled devices and'is designed especially for use in connection with the automatic gasolene service disclosed and claimed in Letters Patent of the United States, No. 1,133,167, issued to me on the 24th day of March, 1915, and of which application this is a division. It is to be understood, how ever, that while my specific construction was designed for the use abovejstated, it is adaptable for many other uses and hence I do not wish to be limited unnecessarily in its applications in practice.

Among the special bjects of this inven mechanism which is peculiarly adapted for detecting bogus or bad coins or checks which Another object of the invention is to provide a means whereby a good coin may be returned to the customer in the event that the supply of oil or other commodity is exhausted.

The foregoing and many other objects of the invention will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of an the automatic delivery of gasolene embodying my novel check controlled devices; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional detail on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a diagram indicating the several magnets and the parts associated therewith; Fig.

is a detail view indicating the nature of the magnetically operated pawls; Fig. 4 is a view of a part of the machine looking toward the right in Fig; 1; Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the coin chute; Fig. 6

are too heavy or and subsequently chute including the electric terminals adapted to be bridged by a moving coin.

The several parts of this device may be made of any suitable materials, and the relative sizes and proportions, as well as the general design of the mechanism, may be varied to a considerable extent without departing from the spirit of the invention hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

At 15 I show a casing of a machine of any suitable character in or associated with which my improved coin or check controlled devices are adapted to be used, and in carrying out such illustration I indicate at 16 a tank for holding a supply of oil or the like to be dispensed automatically. The oil delivery devices per so are shown in detail and covered by the claims of the patent aforesaid, and hence are not disclosed herein specifically. Only certain parts thereof are illustrated herein to support the specific construction and operation of the coin controlled mechanism. At 21 is indicated a pipe through which oil is delivered in measured or weighed quantities into the tank is delivered therefrom to supply the customer according to the means controlled by this improvement and-including valve mechanism to which a pitman 39 extends from a wheel 38 mounted upon a shaft to which is secured a pinion 36 cooperating with a segmental gear 28 carried by a lever 28. I

A hand lever 33 is journaled at 34 within the casing 15, the handle 35 of which lever extends to the outside of the casing for operation by the customer. The gear segment and weight 27 associated therewith are adapted to be lifted by means of a rod 30 pivoted at its lower end at 31 to the lever 28 and having pin and slot connection at 32 at its upper end to the lever 33 whereby the customer, upon depressing the handle, will store power through the weight 27 for actuating the valve devices. When the lever 28 is lifted it will be engaged and momentarily held by means of a spring pressed pawl 42 constituting the armature of the electro-magnet 45. Another pawl of the samecharacter is shown at 43 and is adapted to support the actuator segment 28' at or about the middle of its downward movement. This pawl constitutes the armature of another magnet 46.

The controlling means for the magnets includes a disk 47 adjacent the upper part of the casing associated with a motor 49. Said disk coiiperates with a lever 51 pivoted to a bar 54 having direct connection with the hand lever 33. The handle 35 is lifted automatically by a spring 56, the'force of which is superior to the power of the motor 49 tending to rotate the disk 47. When, h'owever, the handle 35 is depressed and the finger 51 moves downwardly, the power of the motor causes the disk to rotate in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 3.

The coin mechanism particularly claimed .in this case includes a tube 59 having in its bottom normally spaced contacts 60 (see Fig. 10) constituting. a part of a circuit 61 from the battery 44 and through the magnet 45. As the coin glides down the chute 59 and comesinto engagement with and bridges the contacts 60, the magnet will be energized momentarily, and the pawl 42 constituting its armature will thus be drawn from the lever 28 allowing the lever to drop until it engages and is held by the pawl 43. This movement of the lever initiates the flow of oil or like commodity in the tank 16.

64 indicates an adjustable stop pin adapted to be inserted into any one of a series of holes 64 according to the price of the commodity to be dispensed or the amount thereof to be determined.

20 indicates the pointer of the scale mechanism which weighs the amount of oil being dispensed, and when such pointer reaches the pin 64, the circuit through the'wires 63 and drawing the pawl 43 and allowing the lever 28 to drop to normal position under the force of the weight 27, closing the admission valves and providing for the discharge or delivery of the commodity being dispensed. When the fluid is relieved from the tank 16, the pointer 20 returns to its normal position. I will now briefly describe a suitable coin or check mechanism having special reference to the safeguarding against the use of false coins, the prevention of the introduction of a second coin before the apparatus is ready for it, and means fordespatching a used coin either into the receptacle provided for it by the owner or manager of the apparatus magnet 46 will be completed, thus withor its return to the customer in the event that there is no fluid ready for delivery. At 65 I show the coin slot into which the customer will deposit the required coin. Said slot constitutes the special tube 66 shown in detail in Figs. 5, 6 and 7, and provided at 67 .with a narrow open bottom through which a thin coin or check will pass freely before going to the actuating means. The proper coin, however, will pass over said narrow opening 67 without obstruction or loss and come to rest zgglainst a shoulder 68, as shown in Fig. 7. en the operator depresses the handle 35 and bar 54, according to the rules for operating the machine, a pin 54, carried by said bar and moving along a slot 69 in a bell crank 70 pivoted at 71, will lift the coin from the shoulder 68 into the dotted line position of 'Fig.- 7, whence it rolls freely along the tube 66 until it is deposited upon a light scale pan 72. The scale 73 to which the pan 72 belongs is for the purpose of detecting and. discharging to inoperative position a false coin or one which is too heavy or too light. The scale pan 72 is pivoted along one edge at 72, and 74 indicates a toothed bar which is adapted to be lifted by means of a magnet 75 for the purpose of tilting the pan to discharge the coin therefrom, as shown best in Figs. 3 and 9. At 76 I show another electromagnet in the circuit 77 includin a pair of contacts77, one of which is earned by the disk 47, the contacts completing the circuit 77 shortly after the disk 47 begins its rotation but after the coin has been received by the pan 72, and the pan-has come to rest weighing the same. The magnet 76 through its armature 78 causes a lock 79 to engage the teeth of the scale pan stem 80, looking it temporarily in the position to which the coin has moved it and against the tension of a spring 81. Immediately after said locking has taken place, the disk will complete a circuit 82 through contacts 82 energizing the magnet 75, the armature of which is or carries said toothed bar 74 which, engaging with a lip 72" of the pan 72, will lift the pan causing the coin to slide therefrom and through an opening 83 at the bottom of a bafiieboard 84 also carried by the coin scale device. coin is proper, the coin will be delivered, as shown in Fig. 1, for passage along the tube 59 for the light, it will be delivered at a higher point into an auxiliary tube 85 or, on the other hand, if it is too heavy, the delivery will take place into an auxiliary tube 86, said auxiliary tubes leading into the bottom of open outer end of a If" the weight of the.

urposes above set forth. If it is shown in Fig. 4, by means of diagonal slots 74 cooperating with fixed pins 7 4, whereby, when the magnet is dead, there will be no obstruction of the pan 72. 5 The disk 47 is'provided in its periphery with a notch 47 which receives one arm 0 the bell crank 87 journaled on a shaft 88 and having its other arm projecting downwardly I through and just within a slot 89 in the coin chute 66. The arrangement of the notch 47 and the bell crank with respect to the tube 66 is such that as soon as the disk starts its movement the lower end of the bell crank will project far enough into the tube 66 to prevent the passage of a succeeding coin along the tube to interfere with the proper operation of the device.

Referring especially to Figs. 3 and 8, I will now describe the means for the automatic disposition of used good coins. The lower end of the chute 59 delivers the coin into contact with, a bridge 62 supported pivotally in an unstable position, as in full lines in Fig. 8, by means of a pair of spring operated armature plungers mounted slidablyin alinement with each other in and through a switch casing 90. A magnet 91 of which the plunger 92 is the armature is arranged in a circuit 93 having a contact point 93 adapted to be engaged by the scale pointer just after said pointer starts to move. Said contact 93', however, does not obstruct the movement of the pointer. When said circuit 93 is completed and the magnet. 91 l energized, the bridge, 62 will be turned toward the right in Fig. 8, the bridge being attracted as well as the plunger 92, and the coin will be delivered downwardlythrough a chute 59? to the intended receptacle. The other magnet 94 of which the plunger 95 is the armature is in a circuit 96 having contacts 96' adapted to be completed when the disk 47 approaches the end of its rotation. When the magnet 94 is thus energized, the bridge 62 is moved in the opposite direction from that above described, causing the coin to be delivered through a branch chute 59 and returnedto the customer. This operation takes place when there is no fluid to be delivered andhen'ce when there is no movement of the pointer 20 which would otherwise complete the circuit to the magnet 91.

Iclaimz- 1. In a device of the character set forth, the combination of a coin inlet tube having a'slot in its bottom and a stop shoulder adjacent thereto for receiving and holding temporarily a coin, a bell crank adapted to act upon and lift said coin so as to cause the delivery thereof from the end of the'chute, a hand operating member, a rod connectin said last mentioned member to the be crank, a multiple delivery chute for the coin, and means between the inlet chute andthe livery according means acting upon control the direction of deto the weight of the coin. 2. In a device of the character set forth, the combination of a coin inlet chute, a de-. pressible pan to receive the coin from the chute, said pan being depressed according to the weight of the coin and having a tiltable member, a plurality of discharge chutes having mouths arranged at different heights alongside of the pan, and means acting on delivery chute to said pan to cause thedelivery therefrom of the coin into the proper delivery chute, said means including devices locking the main part of the pan in fixed position, and other means acting in turn upon the pivoted member to lift the same, substantially as set forth.

3. In a coin controlled device, the combination of a coin inlet chute, a bell crank cooperating with the chute to control the passage of a coin therethrough, hand operating the bell crank, a depressible pan to receive the coin from the chute, said pan having a stem, a plurality of discharge chutes having their mouths at different elevations adjacent said pan, means to lock said stem temporarily in fixed position, and means acting subsequently upon said pan to deliver the coin therefrom into the proper chute.

4. In a coin controlled device, the combination of a depressible pan including a pivoted member, means to deposit a coin upon the pan, the weight of the coin determining the position to which it will move the pan, a contact disk, means operating simultaneously with the means for controlling the passage of the coin to the pan to initiate the rotation of the disk, an electromagnet adapted to be energized by said disk after it begins its rotation serving to lock the pan in its depressed position, and means acting subsequently upon the pan to deliver the coin therefrom whilejit is held in looking position.

5. In a coin controlled device, the combination of a coin inlet chute, means'to control the passage of coins therethrough, a depressible pan adapted to receive coins singly from the chute, said pan including a tiltable member and a locking means cooperating with said disk to control nationof a depressible pan adapted to reoeive a coin, the weight of the coindetermining plurality of discharge chutes having receivthe extent of depression of the pan, a

stem, a contact disk,

ing mouths at different elevations alongside of said pan, said. pan having a tiltablemember, means to lock the pan in depressed po sition temporarily, a toothed bar adapted to cooperate with said tiltable member, and

means acting upon said tootheoi bar to shi ft it laterally into engagmg positlon with said tiltable member and simultaneously to lift it to cause the tilting of said member.

SlDNEY-FITZ H MIOTON,

Witnesses:

H. J. WATERMAN, H. GAZIN. 

